Echolilia: A Father’s Photographic Conversation with His Autistic Son. Timothy Archibald uses his camera to find an emotional bridge to his son Photographs and text from the book Echolilia: Sometimes I WonderMy eldest son was born in 2001. He was always a kid who went to the beat of his own drummer. When he was 5, we began making photographs collaboratively as a way to find some common ground and attempt to understand each other. Soon after we began the project, Elijah was diagnosed on the autistic spectrum. Though the diagnosis gave me the words and history to understand my son better, it didn’t take away the mystery and the need to try to find an emotional bridge to him.”Echolilia” is an alternate spelling of a more common term, “echolalia,” used in the autistic community to refer to the habit of verbal repetition and copying that is commonly found in autistic kids’ behavior. I liked the idea of it: photography is a form of copying. Kids are a form of repetition. And looking at my kid with photography allowed me to see myself a new
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When Greg Dunn finished his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Penn in 2011, he bought himself a sensory deprivation tank as a graduation present. The gift marked a major life transition, from the world of science to a life of meditation and art.
Now a full-time artist living in Philadelphia, Dunn says he was inspired in his grad-student days by the spare beauty of neurons treated with certain stains. The Golgi stain, for example, will turn one or two neurons black against a golden background. “It has this Zen quality to it that really appealed to me,” Dunn said.
Neuroscientist-turned-artist Greg Dunn creates incredible work at the intersection of art and science, drawn from his imagination but informed by his knowledge of neuroanatomy.
Greg Dunn does simply fantastic work. My favorites are his neurons drawn in the style of Japanese scrolls.
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Cy Twombly - Scenes from an Ideal Marriage (1986) - Acrylic and pencil on paper
I don’t think I could express in words how much I feel for Twombly’s work.
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Abigail Reynolds - Mount Fear (2010)
One of the coolest concepts in thematic cartography is the statistical surface: the act of representing numerical data as a 3D landscape.
Reynolds’ cardboard sculpture of London obliterates the city’s physical terrain and replaces it with one derived from crime data. The result is a mountainous and desolate landscape, one that offers a potentially more realistic representation of the hostilities of the urban experience.
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The incredibly intricate and captivating custom animal sculptures by Creatures From El, Ellen June.
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1- The White Hind (The Bride)
Stoneware based mixed media sculpture
68 x 50 x 18 inches | 173 x 127 x 46 cm2-In Bocca al Lupo
Stoneware based mixed media sculpture
56 x 84 x 24 inches | 142 x 213 x 61 cmfrom beth cavener stichter’s come undone
Honestly, why is she so amazing? I would like them skills.
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A lot of the things I find aesthetically pleasing I also find somewhat repulsive. This is one of those things. Not quite texturally repulsive enough to make me want to vomit, but repulsive enough for me to enjoy it.
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